A positive tank thread! See inside for details!

[347SPECTRE]

How much of the new tanks have you actually played? Because DRK is now just WAR with a layer of angst infused black paint.

You could say it's the Warrior of Darkness












I'll go to the corner now :3

[TheRealQuah]

DRK is nothing like WAR. It has one similar offensive skill. I used to play WAR, but it's boring now, so I switched to DRK. TBN is the most unique and best tank skill in the game.

[IntrovertAnt]

Can we stop talking about drk for one thread? :/

[Allooutrick]

I came for the good news. Not for this bickering.

[Vallerie]

So, ShB is the first time I picked up tanking in earnest. Never could get into it properly before. What changed? I'm not sure, maybe tanks have been dumbed down enough for me, maybe it's that I run things with healer I know, like, and trust, or maybe it's just that I finally managed to get high enough level for TBN.

Whichever it is, there is one more tank running around out there and she loves it.
That's all I have to say. ^^;

[Soraki-Muppe]

Crap, now people are going to interrupt me when I am eating my cat food.

[jetfire117]

I came for the good news. Not for this bickering.

I gotchu, do yall know how good it is to finally have all the tank stances off the gcd? It feels so good to weave it in during swaps. Tanking just feels so smooth that it feels good on my fingers.

[TheForce]

obviously more than you have

Nah, he's right. I have DRK at 80 and have put a great deal of time into it. 5.0 DRK does feel too much like WAR. It has failed to evolve.

[TankHunter678]

Despite "Tank in Need" being back I still regularly see 5+ min ques where I am stuck waiting on healers. While if I hop onto a healer and que in despite it saying "Tank in Need" I get snap of the fingers instant pop ques.

[jetfire117]

Nah, he's right. I have DRK at 80 and have put a great deal of time into it. 5.0 DRK does feel too much like WAR. It has failed to evolve.

To me it "feels" like WAR only when I press inner release and spam bloodspiller 5 times, but GNB and PLD also feel like WAR to me in that same regard. I don't even want to level WAR after playing the other three tanks, but I don't have to since drk is literally WAR :^). Maybe DRK was always WAR since stormblood, and the speed only blinded us from the truth. But those are real big brain thoughts. Anyway, this isn't the thread to have this discussion for the 10000th time.